The bronze seal ring was discovered among the submerged ruins of ancient Alexandria — and officials say its tiny carving is ...

A bronze seal ring showing Alexandria’s ancient Pharos lighthouse was found during underwater excavations in the city’s ...

The most significant archaeological discoveries of the next decade probably won't come from a desert excavation or a jungle survey. They'll come from the seafloor. Advances in underwater robotics, ...

Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded a team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and UC San Diego for ...

The second phase of fieldwork by an international underwater archaeological expedition was carried out at Issyk-Kul Lake in September 2026. Valery Kolchenko, a research fellow at the Institute of ...

Archaeologists have discovered the sunken ruins of a 7,000-year-old road that once linked an ancient artificial landmass to the Croatian island of Korčula. The submerged road, along with several other ...

More than a thousand ancient shipwrecks could still be lying beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Latvia, according to estimates cited by Latvian archaeologists. The Baltic is unusually well suited ...

There are ancient pirates and modern treasure hunters. They are separated by more than 200 years of history, differences in the available technology, and types of sponsorship that keep them afloat—the ...

Archaeologists discover a torpedo jar fragment and ancient ring wells during underwater exploration off Poompuhar coast, Tamil Nadu.

Bass was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to literature-loving parents. His father, Robert, was a professor of English literature at the University of South Carolina, and would later become a ...